India is 0-1 in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. In the lead test, the team was defeated by 5 wickets against England. Now the Indian team led by Shubhman Gill will have to win another Test to comeback in the 5 -match series. The match will be played on July 2 at the Edgbaston grounds of Birmingham.
In this story, we will know India's record on this 143 -year -old historic ground. Along with this, we will also look at the list of top scorers and top wickets in India. First of all, know about this field …
India's record on the Edgbaston field
Didn't win the test in 58 years, played the draw 39 years ago The Indian team played its first match at the Edgbaston ground 58 years ago in 1967. The Indian team led by Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi suffered a 132 -run defeat in the match played from July 13 to July 15. Since then, the Indian team has played 8 Test matches on the field, but has not won a single match.
The Indian team played a draw match here 39 years ago in 1986. In the match, which runs from July 3 to 8, Mohinder Amarnath (79 runs), Mohammad Azhar (64 runs) and Sunil Gavaskar (54 runs) scored the Fifty and the match was drawn. Kapil Dev was the captain of this match.
Top Indian players
Kohli Top Scorer, Chetan Sharma took the highest wicket Rishabh Pant is the only player on the current Indian team on the list of top Indian players on the Edgbaston field. Virat Kohli is at the top of the top scorers list here. He has scored 231 runs in 4 innings at an average of 57.75. Which includes a century and one half -century.
The list of these 5 players includes names like Sunil Gavaskar, Rishabh Pant, Sachin Tendulkar and Gundappa Vishwanath. No bowlers involved in the top 5 wickets are not part of the Indian team traveling to England. Chetan Sharma has taken 10 wickets here. EAS Prasanna, R.K. The names of Ashwin, Kapil Dev and Ishant Sharma are included.
3. Interesting facts
England chase the largest run against India England chase their biggest run against India on the field. India had a huge target of 378 runs in the match played in 2022 3 years ago. Which England chase in 3 sessions. The team started playing the second innings after lunch on the fourth day and won before lunch on the fifth day. Match status in 2 points …
- Pant-Jadeja played a century innings In this match, which runs from July 1 to 5, England won the toss and decided to bowl. India scored 416 runs in the first innings based on centuries of Rishabh Pant (146 runs) and Ravindra Jadeja (104 runs). England were all out for 284 in the first innings. India got a 132 -run lead in the first innings.
- Route-Berstow Partnership stripped of victory The Indian team scored 245 runs in the second innings and England gave a difficult target of 378 runs. Joe Route (142* runs) and Johnny Bairstow (114* runs) were taken away from India by an unbeaten 269 for the fourth wicket. Jasprit Bumrah was the captain in this match.
Match experience
8 players experience playing here, 11 players are new 8 players of the Indian team have experience playing here. These include Captain Shubhman Gill, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, famous Krishna and Shardul Thakur. There are 11 players who have not played a single match on this field.
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